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“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.”

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Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.”

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.”

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Book:Conversations with Raymond Carver

Source: Conversations with Raymond Carver

“Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'”

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Author:Kate Atkinson

“... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.”

Fiction Bounds Autobiography

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“to look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory. ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography.”

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Book:Time to Be in Earnest

Source: Time to Be in Earnest

“Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?”

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Book:When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography

Source: When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography

“Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.”

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Book:Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel

Source: Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel

“Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.”

“With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.”

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Author:Kate Zambreno

“I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.”

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Author:Garth Greenwell